Brian Liles over at Smarticus has released episode 1 of his new video
podcast called #yerdoinitwrong. In this first episode, Brian explains that if you
are relying on tailing your Rails Logs, then #yerdoinitwrong.

This week Michael Deering has released his ActiveRecord Attribute Normalization
plugin. This plugin allows you to quickly clean your ActiveRecord model’s string
attribute values with a single line of code. By default it will trim the whitespace
off of strings before saving.

If you find yourself modifying the database a great deal you may want to take a look at a project by Neeraj Singh called admin_data. admin_data is a plugin that gives you a database editor right inside your application using your ActiveRecord models.You just install the plugin, start up your app, and go to /admin-data and you get a full database editor.

Clinton R. Nixon has written an introduction to MongoDB and the MongoMapper Ruby Library over at VIGET.com. In the article Clinton explains why you might want to try MongoDB, as well as an intro on how to use MongoMapper to interact with your database from Ruby.

The LESS CSS extension language now has an official rails plugin called MORE.
If you haven’t heard of LESS, it’s an extension of the CSS language that supports
things like variables, mixins, nested rules, and operations on values.

Remember, Ruby5 will be released Tuesday and Friday mornings, due to your feedback for consistent, morning releases. To stay informed about and active with this podcast, we encourage you to do one of the following:

Previous Episodes

OpenID, Presenters and Cells, git-deploy, and the dog-pile effect are just some of the topics covered in this Friday morning episode. RubyConf also made the list, although it probably shouldn't since they rejected us.

RCov and Pony, with a little bit of Hangman make for a good start. We also cover some Rails authentication options and metaprogramming in Ruby. Finally, what's new in Edge Rails and the Rails Rumble results close out this Friday episode.